2020 French Red Wine

Opaque magenta. Expressive, smoke- and mineral-tinged cherry and dark berry aromas pick up suggestions of olive, peony and baking spices with air. Broad and chewy on the palate, offering bitter cherry, cassis, fruitcake and floral... Read More

Cerise is Fabrice Gripa's more approachable, ready-to-drink wine, made from a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. Intensely fruity, with notes of blackcurrant, stewed strawberries, blueberries, eucalyptus, and black olives.... Read More

Of the 1,199 valuable hectares planted to grapes in Pauillac, most are owned by the numerous Cru Classé châteaux. Yet, within the formidable estates of Mouton and Lafite Rothschild lays a single hectare in the hands... Read More

Château de Chaintres produces this cuvée from one of their best and oldest parcels: a 1940 planting (hence the name: the year of plantation in Roman numerals) of Cabernet Franc in the heart of the clos. Aged in a... Read More

Château Haut-Segottes has fewer than 10 hectares of vines located within the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru appellation. This wine is usually dominant with Cabernet Franc, which produces a wine of considerable structure and is... Read More

Ripe, luminous wild strawberries and black cherry flavors explode from nose to finish in this hedonistic, intensely fruity blend of Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre and Cinsault. It’s gorgeously primary in youth with a zesty mineral... Read More

Rapturous perfume inspires and is enhanced by a cooling breezy freshness which billows and swells along to the long and haunting finish. An assault on the senses!

Château Sainte Anne is a 15 ha estate run by Françoise Dutheil and her son Jean-Baptiste. They take a hands off approach to winemaking and have worked closely with Thierry Puzelat, Pierre Overnoy, and Gramenon since... Read More

The very expressive nose of Chateau Senejac Haut-Medoc exhales scents of black fruits and spices. In the mouth, Sénéjac presents a lot of fullness and intensity while remaining suave and civilized thanks to the smoothness... Read More

A Malbec from the Cahors region of southwest France. This darkly colored wine has a meaty, herb-tinged aroma, with hints of spiced black cherries and a whiff of cedar. It's fruit-driven but never guilty of excessive extraction,... Read More

A partnership between Paul Hobbs, internationally renowned winemaker and Malbec specialist, and Bertrand Gabriel Vigouroux, whose family has been producing wine in Cahors, France since the 1880s, Crocus wines redefine Malbec from... Read More

Another absolute gem of a wine is the 2020 Roc De Cambes, which is mostly Merlot from vines just next to the Domaine de Cambes vineyards. Black cherries, plums, black raspberries, vanilla bean, camphor, and graphite are just some... Read More

100% Pinot Noir from a vineyard in the commune of Molamboz. The vines here are over 40 years old, which is a perfect age for producing profound wines. Silky and aromatic, with red cherry and mashed mountain berries enveloped with... Read More

Super-ripe blackberry and plum fruit touched with leather, spice and smoke. The texture is impressively dense and concentrated, yet the wine never loses its silky elegance which lingers invitingly on the long finish. This is a... Read More

The appellation of Crozes-Hermitage is located in the north of the Rhône Valley. This comes from Maxime Graillot, the eldest son of Alain Graillot, who in the early 2000s branched off on his own after working wtih his father... Read More

Deep raspberry, cherry, incense and exotic spice aromas are brightened by an intense mineral topnote. The palate shows purity of fruit, spicy garrigue flavors (as you'd expect from a more expensive Southern Rhone wine) and... Read More

This wine captures a unique plot which cannot be mechanized so everything is done manually. After a fifteen day maceration on whole cluster the juice goes into oak barrels for a year prior to bottling without filtration. This... Read More

Gorgeous red Burgundy from the lovely parcel of “Bons Batons” situated at the crossroads of Chambolle Musigny and Gilly les Citeaux, this cuvée is as refined as any you will find at the Bourgogne level. It bursts... Read More

Note: from a .75 ha parcel of 50+ year old vines. A more deeply pitched and exuberantly fresh nose speaks of poached plum, dark currant and more pronounced earth influence. There is impressive concentration to the sleekly muscular... Read More

100% Pinot Noir from old-vines planted in the Runz vineyard just below the Zotzenberg Grand Cru. Grapes are hand-harvested and macerate for 2-3 weeks whole-cluster in stainless steel tank prior to racking to neutral barrique for... Read More

This powerful, ripe, incredibly sexy beauty should be snatched up by readers. Blackcurrants, black cherries, ground herbs, graphite, and licorice notes all flow to a deep, full-bodied, rockingly textured base cuvée that... Read More

Made using the same techniques used for Château de Beaucastel (The Perrin family’s winery famous for its Châteauneuf du Pape). Strong, medium-bodied with pleasant freshness and elegant tannin.

The Demoiselle de Sociando-Mallet is produced from the younger vines of the property and the plots whose soil is more favourable to the production of very good Merlot, and we produce the wine in a way to preserve the freshness... Read More